Aisha Buhari’s unending drama amidst Nigerian child’s plight, By Olabisi Deji-Folutile
If President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, devotes half of the energy invested in fighting the cabal in Aso Rock to pressing for the welfare of the Nigerian child, perhaps, there could have been a significant reduction in the number of the over 13 million out-of-school children in the country. This…
Media Analysis as Peace Building, By Tunde Akanni
Introduction The idea of content analysis is well steeped in media studies and adjudged to be particularly rewarding when working with data from media and related sources. On account of the duality of its functionality manifesting in both quantitative and qualitative approaches as deployed here, it often avails researchers the…
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Beirut and Santiago in the streets: why multinationals should pay their fair share of taxes, By Magdalena Sepulveda
Will 2020 be as explosive as the year that is coming to an end? This is the anxiety that embraces governments around the world, still destabilized by massive and unexpected popular uprisings. In Chile, where I come from, but also in Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt, among…
Sowore is not alone, By Niyi Akinnaso
When Omoyele Sowore, career activist, publisher of Sahara Reporters, and presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, was first arrested in July, 2019, I chastised him, not for leading a protest but for the provocative invocation that accompanied his call for a revolution. Although he made inflammatory statements and used…
Preparing African educational systems for Blockchain, By Adetola Salau
Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school. Period. – April Chamberlain The proliferation of the…
Good talk, Aisha Buhari; but who will bell the cat?, By Banji Ojewale
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable-Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher About the time First Lady Aisha Buhari was again emerging from ‘the other room’ to deliver one of her seasonal tirades against the…
America, Their America, By Udeme Nana
The title of this piece isn't an original from my " fertile mind" as Patrick Albert, a colleague and former Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) would like people believe. The earliest writer to use that caption was Professor John Pepper Clarke,…
Our Involvement in Xenophobia, By Eric Teniola
It’s sad, very sad but we must admit that xenophobia is still subsisting in today’s world. Xenophobia did not start in South Africa and it will not end in South Africa. Nigeria, now a victim, has aggressively indulged in xenophobia before. The worsening economic situation in most countries of the…
Buhari Cannot Look The Other Way, By Azu Ishiekwene
Since we have eyes but cannot see, the Department of State Security (DSS) invited us to look again at the viral video of the invasion of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu’s courtroom on Friday. Laughable, if it wasn’t a travesty. The previous day, the judge had given the DSS 24 hours to…
Buhari, It’s Your Time To Lead the Revolution, By ‘Tope Fasua
If I could advise Buhari, I will say that he should buy, rebrand and own the Revolution Now rhetoric. Revolution is not a swear word. In fact, I believe it was what we need in Nigeria presently. The word cannot be outlawed as it is being done presently. Nigeria needs…
